“Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.”

“Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.”

“He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”

“strongest blade in the world, howeve, r it is so fragile as to shatter when handled by any force other than the delicate touch of a lesbian.”

“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.”

“I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.”

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

“Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.”

“Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.”

“The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.”